Ahmed A > Ahmed's Quotes

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
― René Descartes

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“خرجت إلى الحج فاستقبلني رجل في بعض المتاهات فقال : يا أبا يزيد إلى أين؟
، فقلت : إلى الحج ،
فقال : كم معك من الدراهم ؟ ،
قلت : معي مئتا درهم ،
فقال : طف حولي سبع مرات و ناولني المائتي درهم فإن لي عيالاً ، فطفت حوله و ناولته المائتي درهم .”
― أبو يزيد البسطامي, المجموعة الصوفية الكاملة ويليها كتاب تأويل الشطح